Anything the enemy flew or floated was his target.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).

The decision to target the Apollo 16 lunar landing for the highlands region of the Moon was made to obtain samples of the Descartes Formation and the Cayley Formation.

It was ultimately decided to target the Apollo 16 mission to the Descartes site.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

The intended target was not Ethernet, and it did not have 48-bit addresses to route.

In predicted fire the basic geospatial data of range, angle of sight and azimuth between a fire unit and its target was produced and corrected for variations from the ' standard conditions '.

Another target was Senator Ted Kennedy, parodied as " Senator O. Noble McGesture ," resident of " Hyideelsport.

The limitations of beam-riding guidance ( which was slaved to an optical sight on single seater fighters and a radar with night fighters ) restricted the missile to attacks against targets flying a straight course and made it essentially useless against a maneuvering target.

) The F-4 pilot launched the missile and then saw that the target was the B-52, which was hit.

One characteristic of the Missileer ancestry was that the radar sent it mid-course corrections, which allowed the fire control system to " loft " the missile up over the target into thinner air where it had better range.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

But it was not a secret that Bulgaria's target was the fulfilment of the never materialized Treaty of San Stefano signed after the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78.

This target was irradiated with 35 MeV alpha particles for 6 hours in the 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

The Herald American was printed in broadsheet format, and failed to target a particular readership ; where the Record American had been a typical city tabloid, the Herald Traveler was a Republican paper.

Strutt ( Sports and Pastimes ) suggests that the first player's bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack ; but in that case it is not clear what was the first player's target.

The Japanese presence made Palau a major target for the Allied forces in World War II.

Pas-de-Calais was also the target of Operation Fortitude during World War II, which was an Allied plan to deceive the Germans that the invasion of Europe at D-Day was to occur here, rather than in Normandy.

The presence of important industries made it a favourite target for the Allied bombardments in World War II, totalling 108 raids.

Allied warships bombarded the invasion beaches while U. S. carrier aircraft bombed Japanese positions on the target islands and destroyed 15 Japanese seaplanes at their base near Tulagi.

In 1944 it was the target of several Tallboy and Azon bombing targets from Allied planes.

A major logistical centre in the Ruhr and location of chemical, steel and iron industries, Duisburg was a primary target of Allied bombers.

* Technically, the Allied fuze used constructive and destructive interference to detect its target.

A provisional target date of May 1944 was set, the code-name Overlord decided upon, and a joint Anglo-American planning staff created under Lieutenant-General Frederick E. Morgan, who was given the title of Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander ( COSSAC ).

Many Americans argued for an immediate invasion of France, while the British, as well as General Dwight D. Eisenhower, argued that the island of Sardinia was the best subsequent target of the Allied troops.

Consequently, by 1943 Romania became a target of Allied aerial bombardment.

The Rjukan plant was the only location in Europe which produced heavy water, a component the Allied powers in World War II feared would be used as part of the German atomic bomb project, and consequently was the target of several commando and air raids and a sabotage raid which eventually resulted in the plant's destruction and later reconstruction.

During World War II, the plant made Pölitz a bombing target of the Allied Oil Campaign of World War II.

When the Allied strategic bombing campaign started to target the German war industry, German planners decided to move production to underground facilities that were impenetrable to enemy aerial bombardment.

Alessandria was a tactical military target during World War II and was subjected to intense Allied bombing, the most serious being the raids of April 30, 1944, with 238 dead and hundreds wounded, and April 5, 1945, with 160 deaths, among them 60 children from the children's asylum in Via Gagliaudo.

The Fieseler factory was the target of many Allied air raids, but continued production throughout the war.

During World War II, as a strategic depot, Wesel became a target of Allied bombing.

To some degree the targets were secondary missions ; Doolittle used the bombers as an irresistible target to draw up Luftwaffe fighters into the ever-increasing swarms of Allied long-distance fighters.

The Army's preferred option was to use Meillerwagens, mobile firing batteries, which presented a much smaller target for the Allied air forces.

Because it was such a major producer of arms and military vehicles during the Second World War, Steyr became a target of Allied bombing raids which tried to knock out its factories.

In the Second World War, Dillenburg became a target of Allied attacks with its now closed marshalling yard.

The remaining hotels and spas of Bad Kreuznach again became the seat of an Army Command from 1939 to 1940, important to the course of the War, because of the Wehrmacht barracks in the Bosenheimer Strasse, the Alzeyer Strasse and the Franziska-Puricelli-Strasse, and the strategically important Berlin – Paris railway line passing through the city -- always a target for Allied bombing raids.

In World War II, Mainz was a target of Allied bombing multiple times.

During World War II, it was the site of several Allied air raids designed to target the rail links into Munich and disrupt the transportation of materials from the " Innwerk " industrial park in Toging am Inn.